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2 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery

Details:

Title

2 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Berrimah, Quarantine Station,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Anti-aircraft,

Unit

2 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery,

Alternative unit name

2 HAA Battery,

Parent unit

2/1 Anti Aircraft Regiment,

Subordinate units

428 Heavy Anti Aircraft Gun Troop,

Date arrived in NT

1942-04-03,

Date left the NT

1943-07-15,

History

2 Heavy Anti aircraft Battery arrived in Darwin in June 1940. The Battery installed two 3.7 inch guns on the Oval and another two at Parap in November 1940. They returned to Sydney on the Zealandia leaving Darwin on 30 December 1940.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, 2 HAA Battery, 2/1 Anti Aircraft Regiment, 428 Heavy Anti Aircraft Gun Troop, 2 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/31211 [PictureNT : PH0398/0034, No 1 Gun, Tony Hitchman Collection],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847647,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/848001